Honore, cool hand in national crisis, retiring

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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, left, and Lt. Gen. Russel Honore salute the crowd as they march from the New Orleans Convention Center to the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005.


Honore, cool hand in national crisis, retiring
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 8, 2008 19:42:11 EST

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore is trading in his uniform, but the Army’s top trainer of National Guard and Reserve troops will not be trading in his role as a trainer.

Honore, 60, relinquished command of First Army to promotable Maj. Gen. Thomas Miller, currently the G-3/5/7 at Forces Command, during a ceremony Jan. 11 at Fort McPherson, Ga. He will now transition from a 37-year career as a soldier to become a visiting professor at a university in Atlanta.

There, he hopes to work with the university to create a culture of preparedness in America and do some public speaking. He also is writing a book about lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, and hopes to have the book published in early summer, before the height of hurricane season.

Honore led the Defense Department’s response to the 2005 hurricane that devastated Mississippi and Louisiana, his home state.

“Back in the 1960s, we had a culture of preparedness,” Honore said. “We’ve adopted concepts of ‘cheaper, better, quicker.’ In a culture of preparedness, people would be prepared because you expect disasters to happen.”


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